That would include almost all of the establishment beltway Republicans:

Ethanol subsidies, oil drilling incentives, government insurance and loan guarantees for nuclear energy, natural gas subsidies: These proposals tend to have as many or more Republican advocates as Democratic advocates. Even worse, self-described free-market conservatives often rally for energy subsidies and claim it’s not a deviation from their principles.

Herein lies the dirty little secret of why the GOP is slow to actually empower the grassroots and conservative movement. It’s also why, in some measure, we can no longer rely on the so called Beltway conservative establishment. Just like Republicans, they’ve come to rely on corporate money, allowing them to drive a large part of their agenda.

Or, unsurprisingly, they’ve been co-opted – more in a long line politicians reduced to rent-seeking for favored corporations to fund their re-election campaigns.

When the GOP talks about being “pro-market”, you’re advised to take that with a grain of salt.

One of the reasons I’m highlighting this is I’ve been invited to write for the site and will be doing so.

It’s Andrew Breitbart’s latest website in his “Big” genre. Big Government, Big Hollywood, Big Journalism and now Big Peace. The focus will be on national security topics and it has an impressive collection of editors to include Peter Schweizer of the Hoover Institute, Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy and Jim Hanson of BlackFive.

It should be an interesting experience. And the 4th of July seemed to be an appropriate launch date – wouldn’t you say?

I’ve also started contributing to the Washington Examiner (as has MichaelW) as a paid blogger (hey, the best kind, no) with opinion pieces and QandO blog reposts.